Day or night, in the rubble, in the mountains, or by the river, civil security dogs sniff and search for victims during multi-day exercises in France and Spain to train for emergency response. Called upon particularly during natural disasters, Belgian Malinois, Border Collies, and German Shepherds rely on their sense of smell to quickly locate injured or unconscious individuals.
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00:00The animals are so motivated to play that we don't hear them at all.
00:04The animals are so motivated to play that we don't hear them at all.
00:27When we do this type of exercise, it is first to take the dimension of what could be a large-scale intervention
00:33and also to get our drivers or our technical advisors used to intervening in dangerous environments
00:42to be able to be much more operational during our interventions.
00:45Where did they go?
00:47I don't know, I didn't see them anymore.
00:52So they don't want to send anyone, Emma? Did you hear that?
00:55Yes, they want to send someone.
00:56If you take, for example, a 500m2 dump with a team of 10 staff,
01:01it will take you more than two hours to locate a single victim.
01:04Whereas with a well-trained dog, where the conditions are favorable,
01:08this victim can be located in one minute.
01:16Where are you going?
01:32There will be few incidents because you will be engaged on the site.